#socio economic

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GSMA: $212 billion boost to Asia-Pacific GDP at stake at WRC-19

- Innovative 5G services will generate $212bn of economic expansion – 0.8 per cent of GDP growth – in APAC by 2034, ...

Gojek ranks among top 20 in Fortune's list of companies

Gojek, Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand technology platform, once again made it to the annual Fortune ...

Lombok to host Asia Pacific Geoparks Network Sympoum on Aug 30-Sept 6

The Sixth Asia Pacific Geoparks Network (APGN) Symposium will be organized in Geopark Rinjani, Lombok, West Nusa ...

Jakarta Governor inaugurates Dukuh Atas cultural spot

Governor of Jakarta  Anies Baswedan inaugurated a public cultural spot located at Dukuh Atas, Sudirman ...

Bappenas pushes local governments to make detailed residential plans

The National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) encouraged  local governments across Indonesia to make ...

Canada supports two women's rights organizations in Indonesia

Canada will back two Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) projects in Indonesia supporting women’s grassroots ...

Drug dealer killed during Jakarta police raid

A drug dealer Aldi was killed after slipping from the 10th floor of the Season City Apartment, Central Jakarta, on ...

Kin introduced comedian Nunung to drug courier: police

Popular female comedian Tri Retno Prayudati, known as Nunung Srimulat, was introduced by a relative a year ago to Hadi ...

E Java policemen involved in drug ring: police

The East Java police are investigating several local policemen for their alleged involvement in the trafficking of ...

Students, alumni hand in glove in campus marijuana trading: police

The Jakarta Metropolitan Police has blown the lid off the racket of suppliers of marijuana to several universities in ...

Drug dealers recruit teenagers as courier in S Kalimantan: police

The South Kalimantan Police's Anti-Drug Department revealed that a local drug ring has used a 15-year-old teenager ...

Indonesians urged not to stigmatize drug users

Head of Jakarta's Drug Rehabilitation Center (BNNP), Wahyu Wulandari, called on netizens to refrain from commenting ...

Police did not target comedian Nunung Srimulat

The Jakarta Metropolitan Police have denied specifically targeting comedian, Tri Retno Prayudati, commonly known as ...

Butet Kartaredjasa deplores Indonesia's artists using addictive drugs

Veteran actor Butet Kartaredjasa deplored the habit of Indonesia's artists and actresses to use addictive drugs and ...

Attempt to smuggle 38kg of crystal meth foiled

North Kalimantan's National Narcotics Agency (BNN), police, and Customs and Excise Office successfully thwarted an ...